Bishop Arthur Vincent Green Bishop Arthur Vincent Green, MA LLD^{[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]}

1857 - 1944  (86 years)

• Name	Arthur Vincent Green  [1, 2, 3, 4, 8]
  Title	Bishop Arthur Vincent Green
  Prefix	Bishop
  Suffix	MA LLD
  Birth	31 Oct 1857	Albury, Surrey, England   [1, 2, 3, 6, 8]
  Baptism	20 Dec 1857	Albury, Surrey, England   [4]
  		Arthur Vicent Green - baptism Media Date: 20 DEC 1857 Keywords: Picture
  		Arthur Vicent Green - baptism Media Date: 20 DEC 1857 Keywords: Picture
  		Albury - Ss Peter and Paul Church (2) Keywords: Church
  		Albury - Ss Peter and Paul Church (2) Keywords: Church
  Gender	Male
  Burial	1944	Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia   [4]
  Death	24 Sep 1944	Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia   [3, 5, 8]
  Person ID	I18990	DBH Twigs
  Last Modified	22 Jun 2026

  
  

  Father	Rev Samuel Dutton Green Rev Samuel Dutton Green,   b. 1830, Baldock, Hertfordshire, England d. 1879, Victoria, Australia (Age 49 years)
  Mother	Eliza Dutton,   b. 4 Aug 1831, Bampton, Oxfordshire, England d. 21 Jun 1872, New Zealand (Age 40 years)
  Marriage	21 Mar 1854	City of London, London, England   [4, 10, 11]
  	Witnesses: William Dutton, Sophia Ann Dutton, Mary Dutton
  		Samuel Green & Eliza Dutton - marriage Media Date: 21 MAR 1854 Keywords: Marriage
  		Samuel Green & Eliza Dutton - marriage Media Date: 21 MAR 1854 Keywords: Marriage
  		London City - St Mary Aldermary Church Credit: https://alondoninheritance.com/ Keywords: Church
  		London City - St Mary Aldermary Church Keywords: Church
  Family ID	F4447	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Matilda Tucker,   b. Est 1850   d. 30 Jun 1941, Kew, Victoria, Australia (Age 91 years)  [9, 12]
  Marriage	28 Dec 1880	Avenel, Victoria, Australia   [5, 8]
  Children	1. Rev Walter Gerard Arthur Green,   b. 1887   d. 1966, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia (Age 79 years)
  Family ID	F4446	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	13 Mar 2026

  
  

• Photos » Slide Show		Arthur Vincent Green - grave 4 https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/218981254/arthur-vincent-green Photo taken 2022 Keywords: Picture
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  		Samuel D Green - 1861 Census Media Date: 1861 Keywords: Picture
  		Samuel D Green - 1861 Census Media Date: 1861 Keywords: Picture
  		Arthur Vicent Green - baptism Media Date: 20 DEC 1857 Keywords: Picture
  		Arthur Vicent Green - baptism Media Date: 20 DEC 1857 Keywords: Picture
  		Albury - Ss Peter and Paul Church (2) Keywords: Church
  		Albury - Ss Peter and Paul Church (2) Keywords: Church
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  		Arthur Vincent Green - grave 2 Keywords: Picture
  		George W Dutton - Visit by Bishop of Ballarat Witney Gazette and West Oxford Media Date: 9 SEP 1905 Keywords: Picture
  		George W Dutton - Visit by Bishop of Ballarat Media Date: 9 SEP 1905 Keywords: Picture
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• Notes

  GREEN, ARTHUR VINCENT (1857-1944), Anglican bishop, was born on 31 October 1857 at Albury, Surrey, England, son of Rev. Samuel Dutton Green and his wife Eliza, née Dutton. Much of his childhood was spent travelling between England, Australia and New Zealand: his father was appointed to the parish of Penwortham and Clare in the diocese of Adelaide in 1861 and in the next ten years lived variously in Wales, Scotland and New Zealand. After Arthur's mother died in New Zealand in 1872, his father took up an appointment at Kangaroo Flat, Victoria, before returning to England for the sake of the boy's schooling. Matriculating in 1874 from the College of St Andrew and St Edmund, Salisbury, Arthur apparently studied law at the University of Durham before joining his father at Cape Town; there he worked as a junior master at the Diocesan College, Rondebosch. He then accompanied his father (d.1879) to Victoria. Green planned to complete his law course, but first had to matriculate at the University of Melbourne. However, on meeting Bishop Moorhouse, he offered himself for ordination. He obtained a stipendiary readership under Archdeacon J. K. Tucker and took services from Benalla to Yarrawonga whilst lodging at Wangaratta. At the same time he studied for his matriculation examination, which he passed in mid-1877; four months later he completed the first year of his arts degree. Moorhouse offered him a scholarship at Trinity College, University of Melbourne, and he graduated B.A. with honours in 1879 (M.A., 1883). In 1880 he was ordained as curate of St Andrew's, Brighton, and on 28 December at Avenel, married Matilda, daughter of Archdeacon Tucker, then in her early thirties. After a trip to Europe Green returned to assist H. H. P. Handfield at St Peter's, East Melbourne, and in 1885 was appointed vicar of Maldon, having meanwhile enrolled for a law degree at the University of Sydney (LL.B., 1885; LL.D., 1887). He was appointed to St Martin's, Hawksburn, in 1887 and a year later to St Paul's, Geelong. In 1890 he became archdeacon of Ballarat, vicar of Christ Church and examining chaplain to Bishop Thornton for whom he had high regard. Green was elected bishop of Grafton and Armidale, New South Wales, in 1894, the first Victorian-trained clergyman to become an Australian bishop. During his seven-year episcopate he doubled the staff of the clergy, dedicated over eighty new churches, established a theological college for the training of local clergy and built a registry office and bishop's house at Armidale. He travelled widely throughout his diocese, often camping out in primitive conditions. In December 1900 Green was translated to Ballarat as its second bishop, his diocese comprising the western half of Victoria. He set out to augment the Home Mission Fund to assist payment of poorer clergy, to establish St Aidan's Theological College and to make a beginning on Christ Church Cathedral. In 1903 the Synod of Brisbane elected him as bishop but he declined the invitation. In 1908 he began plans for establishing Ballarat Church of England Grammar School for Boys which opened in 1911. In 1910 he delivered the Moorhouse lectures on 'The Ephesian Canonical Writings' (published that year in London); his Australian Sermons (1914), were extensively used by the lay readers in his diocese. On medical advice he resigned in 1915 and moved to Heidelberg, but continued for eight years as a canon of St Paul's Cathedral and a lecturer at Trinity College. He died on 24 September 1944, predeceased by his wife and survived by his son, Rev. Walter Green. Green was described as a man of 'unquenchable vitality', tall and slender, with blue eyes and classic, well-modelled features; he was always immaculately dressed. An able scholar with a passion for education, he had a personal magnetism which drew large crowds wherever he preached. Select Bibliography J. Forster, Address on Florence Emily Green's Death, St Peter's Cathedral, 11 April 1926 (Armidale, 1926); Ballarat Church Chronicle, July 1915; New England Girls' School, Chronicle, June 1926; Overland, 72 (1978), p 24; Ballarat Courier, 3, 5 July 1915; Armidale Chronicle, June 1926; Argus (Melbourne), 26 Oct 1944; Armidale Express, 11 Dec 1946; W. Green, Memorandum on New England Girls School and Florence Emily Green (manuscript, c1965, privately held); E. Summons, Memories of Florence Emily Green (manuscript, privately held); C. Wellard, An Appraisal of the Ideology of Florence Emily Green (manuscript, privately held). More on the resources Author: A. DE Q. Robin, Kelvin Grose Print Publication Details: A. DE Q. Robin, Kelvin Grose, 'Green, Florence Emily (1862 - 1926)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 9, Melbourne University Press, 1983, pp 90-91. There is a biography for her brother Arthur in the Australian Dictionary of Biography https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/green-arthur-vincent-6469.

  
  

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